Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/ZGB.31.4
›The Postcolonial Game‹. Reflections on an African Postcolonial Theory of Alterity
Stephan Mühr
orcid.org/0000-0001-5893-0575
; University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Abstract
In the African-European context, alterity has a long, problematic history, which has, also from the African perspective, led to the exclusion of any possibility of an encounter. In the context of mutual alienation of discourses on European vs. African identities, the paper attempts to pave way for a responsive encounter which might occur in the field of literature. To achieve this, I will first exercise a self- and meta-critique of remarks on a hermeneutics of interculturality which I formulated ten years ago. I will then proceed to draw consequences that lay the foundations for a theory of alterity that is not postcolonial but decolonial.
Keywords
encounter; Critical Whiteness; decoloniality; interculturality; objectivity
Hrčak ID:
289495
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Publication date:
29.12.2022.
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